I can confirm; not many good options though
I have had some first hand experience. First was with the county health department for salmonella just as described below. Some time later I had some unsettling symptoms after a uncovered oral dream. Dreading the probability of what I suspected was going on I knew I needed to make a medical visit. I went to a clinic I had never been to, not to my regular doc. I was too scared for that. Anyhow I told this doc what was going on. He wanted to swab and culture my urethra but knowing if it was positive he would have to report, I refused the test. He said even without the test if his diagnosis was an STD he still needed to report it to the state. I felt trapped and screwed by our system of "confidential" testing with mandatory reporting. Confidential does not mean anonymous, by the way. There is no way I want my name in any state database like this. The doc took some pity on me and made the diagnosis urethral inflammation or something similar, and wrote me two Rx that cleared everything up promptly. I feel I got lucky that time. It was quite some years ago. Now with the drug resistant strains of STD's out there they may be less inclined to do what was done for me. Also, since the time this occurred there have been many advances in patient data sharing between doctors and pharmacies. If this were to happen now, it's quite possible it would be in a record accessible by any doctor you see. I say this because I have considered any such future visits will be under a fictitious name and paid by cash without insurance. I'm fairly sure medical insurance is the means for much or all of this data sharing.
Since that time I have traveled out of state to get routine tests (no symptoms, no treatments needed) in a locale that has true anonymous tests. Lucky for me it's usually coincided with work travel. It's been a while since I've looked into it, but IIRC the nearest anonymous state to NC is WV. CA is also anonymous.
Stay well, all!
[QUOTE=TheSting24;4046666]I can not answer your question, however this is what I do know. This past July, I contracted Salmonella poisoning from a restaurant in Burlington. About after a week or so after treatment and cure, my phone (cell) rang. The caller I'd said Wake County something or other. Since I was unaware of any business I had with Wake Co. , I just figured it was a wrong number and let it go. This happened several times over the course of a couple of days. Finally, the caller left a voice mail asking me to return the call, which I did. On the other end was a nurse with the health department, wanting to know if I was willing to answer some questions, which I did. She basically just wanted me to describe the events leading up to me getting this, if anybody else in my family had gotten it, what course of treatment was I prescribed, etc. She also wanted to know if I had a good idea of where I came into contact with the virus, and I told her exactly where I thought I got it from (was easy to do due to process of elimination).
So based on my experience above, the scenario you described certainly seems possible or even probable.
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